Who’s running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American …

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    10 hours ago

    re:puppet

    I’ve been saying this for a while. He’s senile with dementia but also a political mastermind?

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      9 hours ago

      I’ve only seen right wingers saying he’s a mastermind. The left just says that he’s senile and demented or evil and lawless. He’s doing the shit in the open with minimal statecraft or political finesse.

      He’s a tyrant fascist through and through, but he’s not all that smart, he’s just willing to brazenly ignore any rules that get in his way because consequences don’t apply anymore. Republicans think this makes him a skilled politician, but he’s just a bull in a china shop.

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        I think he is greed embodied. He does what he is paid to do. Doesn’t care if it’s fascist or anarchist. He’s an empty suit saying what he’s been told to. He is perfectly self serving and no more. He’s in this position to keep the puppeteers out of the spotlight with plausible deniability. AKA - the patsy.